Method of producing fluffed cord border for fabrics



Oct. 1,1935. s. R. GEIST 2,015,847

METHOD OF PRODUCING FLUFFED CORD BORDER FOR FABRICS Filed Oct. 50, 1934 a 5/90/15 fiz/pofifm 55/577 Patented oct. 1, 1935 UNITED STATES 'ATENT oFFlcE METHOD OF PRODUCING FLUFFED CORD BORDER FOR FABRICS 1 Claim.

This invention relates to ornamental borders, fringes, and edges for textile fabrics, and has for its main object to provide a method by which such a border or fringe may be produced from the material of the fabric itself.

Another object of this invention is to provide a method, as characterized hereinbefore, by which a border may be produced inexpensively, quickly,

and efficiently.

Generally, the object of this method is to provide a border of a cordlike effect, attractive in appearance and being ultimately produced by the individual fibers of threads of a fabric wherein said fibers will be secured against wear or loosening. With these and other objects in view, as will appear while this specification proceeds, my invention mainly consists in securing a closely placed layer of threads of fabric adjacent an edge of a sheet of a fabric, and substantially perpendicular thereto, by a narrow seam intermediate the ends of said threads and running in parallelism to said edge and then loosening, freeing and raveling all the threads on both sides of said seam as well as the threads in the fabric on the outer side of said seam into substantially individual fibers. For a better effect it is preferred to use threads of the same character as the fabric itself and to make the two parts of the threads at the two sides of the seam identical in length and to make the threads in the original sheet of fabric itself on the outer side of said seam of the same length. As the simplest method for attaining these advantages I simply double the material of the sheet of fabric itself alongside of the respective edge-upon itself in several layers, secure the layers to one another and to the material of the original sheet by a seam centrally between the folds thereof, severing said folds and then loosening the individual fibers in all the threads in said layers as well as in that portion of the threads in the original sheet of material which lies on the outer side of said seam and finally combing and arranging said fibers to form a cordlike border for said edge. I now proceed to describe my novel method by which my fluff cordlike border may be produced, and in this description I will refer to the drawing accompanying this application and forming a part thereof and in which:

Fig. 1 is a plan view in a somewhat diagrammatical manner of a fragment of the fabric on which I desire to produce my novel border;

Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of the initial forming of a plurality of superposed layers of said fabric for forming the border;

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the fabric and said layers also indicating a seam by which said layers are secured to one another and to said fabric;

Fig. 4 is a sectional elevation, the section being taken on the line 4-4 of Fig. 3 and showing said 5 layers severed from one another, and also indicating with dot and dash lines the operation of freeing the individual fibers of the threads, while Fig. 5 is a perspective view showing a portion of the fabric with the finished fluff cord border 10 thereon.

Referring now more closely to said drawing by characters of reference, the numeral l0 indicates a textile fabric having an edge H on which it is desired to produce my novel fluff cord border. 15 The portion of said fabric adjacent to said edge and generally indicated by the numeral I2 is now folded or doubled upon itself several times, as shown in Fig. 2, thereby producing individual superimposed layers [3, l4, l5, and 16 with folds 20 I1, I 8, l9, and 2!! connecting the same and a portion 2| of' the sheet I!) lying directly underneath them. In my process of producing my novel border, I prefer to make 'these layers of identical widths, and I now secure said layers to 25 one another and to the portion 2| of the fabric I!) by a seam 22 preferably running in the center line thereof.

When the layers l3 to IE are thus secured to one another and to the portion 2! of the sheet 30 of the fabric I0, I proceed to cut the folds I'l, I8, l9, and 29 and thereby sever the layers from one another and from the portion 2| of the fabric l0 at said folds while keeping them tightly secured through said seam 22. 35

The fabric l0, naturally, is formed of appro-' priate threads, some of which are indicated by the numerals 23, 24, 25, 25, and 2'! in the various layers and in the original sheet of fabric l0, respectively, and I now free said threads from one 40 another and entirely loosen and ravel the individual fibers therein at both sides of the seam 22 and in the portion 28 of the original sheet of the fabric l0, being that part of the portion 2| which lies on the outer side of the seam 22; said raveling, 45 loosening and freeing being indicated by the dot and dash lines 29 in Fig. 4. As a final operation,

I may comb, arrange and smooth out said individual fibers but even without this last operation,

I will receive a fiufi cord border, as shown in 50 Fig. 5, the loosened and raveled fibers taking up a form of a full fiuffy cord alongside of the edge I I.

By a similar method to that described hereinbefore, I may, of course, produce other ornaments or novel effects on textile fabrics than the fiuiT cord at the edge thereof, as by repeating the operation described for the very edge of the fabric for a distance thereof or for a larger part of the whole surface of the fabric, using separate strips of material or separate layers of threads adjacent to one another and securing them to the material of the fabric and raveling them, as described hereinbefore. In this manner fluffy cordlike borders, fringes and the like may be produced on fabrics and on pieces of garments, on curtains, bedspreads, and the like, and even furlike border collars and entire fur effects may be produced on almost any textile fabric.

It is to be understood that changes and variations may be made in the details of my novel method without departing from the spirit of this invention and the scope of the claim hereunto appended.

What I claim as new is:

A method for producing a fluff cord border alongside an edge of a textile fabric, consisting in doubling the material of the fabric adjacent said' edge upon itself in a plurality of layers of desired widths; securing the layers to one another and to the original sheet of fabric itself by a narrow seam intermediate the folds of said layers; severing said layers from one another by cutting their material alongside said folds; freeing the threads in said layers and in the portion of the original sheet of the fabric on the outer side of said seam from one another but keeping them secured to one another and to the material of the original sheet by said seam, and finally loosening, freeing, raveling, and arranging substantially the individual fibers in said threads to form a cordlike border.

SADIE RUDORFER GEIST. 

